Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781107171725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 276 str.

A. J. Hartley

Opis

This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.

Spis treści

Introduction: 'reason not the need!' Andrew James Hartley; 1. Hamlet the Dane: 'tell my story' Graham Holderness; 2. Shakespeare found and lost Rebecca Bushnell; 3. Shakespeare's novel life: speech, text and dialogue in recent Shakespearean fictions Ken Jacobsen; 4. The school of (The) Night Circus: performing Shakespeare arcana in novel forms Regina Buccola; 5. 'A delicate and tender prince': Hamlet and millenial boyhood M. Tyler Sasser; 6. 'How many daughters had Lady Macbeth?' Jennifer Flaherty; 7. Engaging Ophelia in early twenty-first-century young adult fiction Emily Detmer-Goebel; 8. Criminal adaptations: gender, genre, and Shakespearean young adult literature Erica Hateley; 9. A man with a map: the millennial Macbeth Lisa Hopkins; 10. Shakespeare and the post-millennial cancer novel Sujata Iyengar; 11. Posthuman Tempests in the twenty-first century Christy Desmet; 12. Stratford-upon-web: Shakespeare in twenty-first century fanfiction Michelle K. Yost; 13. The paranormal Bard: Shakespeare is/as undead Laurie E. Osborne; 14. The Hogarth Shakespeare series: redeeming Shakespeare's literariness Douglas M. Lanier.